Vreni Schawalder

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Vreni Schawalder , née Linder, (born February 3, 1946 , hometown Widnau in Sankt Gallen) is a Swiss politician ( SP ) and from 1996 was the first member of the government of the Canton of Thurgau .

Life

Vreni Schawalder is a mother of three and is married to the primary school teacher Walter Schawalder, she is also a trained primary school teacher in Romanshorn . Her father was a cantonal councilor of the FDP . She had her political studies lessons with Government Councilor Hermann Lei and National Councilor Ernst Mühlemann . She was active on a voluntary basis in the Sommeri educational center for the disabled, the Association of Parents and Friends of the Mentally Handicapped, and the Romanshorn Retirement Home Cooperative . In 1993 she became president of the regional committee Lake Constance / Rhine of the "GGS Communities Together Switzerland", which was launched in 1992 in view of the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia, and with this she supports the city of Sombor in Vojvodina .

It is known also as a writer, but also over the long years of her designed crossword Kreuzverquer in the Sunday edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung .

politics

The Romanshorn social democrat, a member of the cantonal parliament since 1988 and a local councilor in Romanshorn since 1991 , was elected President of the Thurgau Grand Council on May 25, 1994, after this office had previously been held by a woman, namely the liberal Brigit Hänzi. Schawalder was a member of the government council of the canton of Thurgau from 1996 to 2000 , to which she was elected with 24,682 votes at the age of fifty. It was the third attempt in Thurgau to elect a woman for the government: in 1986 the FDP tried Brigit Hänzi, but lost its second seat to the SVP . In 1994, the EPP candidate Odette Butz lost in the second ballot against the official SVP applicant. Schawalder resigned on January 7, 2000, before the end of her first term , for health reasons.

Publications (selection)

  • with Daniel Leiser: This is how our association works. 232 pages, 4th edition November 2013, ISBN 978-3-85569-775-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Buchi: Exchanged roles: Vreni Schawalder-Linder. In: Down-to-earth and limitless: 200 years of Thurgau women's stories. Edited by the association Thurgau women yesterday - today - tomorrow. Huber, Frauenfeld / Stuttgart / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-7193-1159-7 , pp. 223-225.
  2. ↑ a b Ida Sandl: Vreni Schawalder elected as the first woman in the Thurgau government. In: Thurgauer Zeitung , March 11, 1996, p. 1.
  3. ^ A b Ida Sandl: Vreni Schawalder: Politics as a matter of the heart. In: Thurgauer Zeitung , May 25, 1994, p. 3.
  4. ↑ The charm of the riddle. ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Section Vreni Schawalder: The poet. In: Migros Magazin Online, December 16, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.migrosmagazin.ch
  5. ↑ Brigitta Hochuli: Vreni, we miss you! , in the online portal Thurgau culture , accessed on August 29, 2015
  6. ^ Cantonal election of November 24th - Thurgau in the second attempt to become a new member of the government council. Swiss dispatch agency, October 29, 2002.
personal data
SURNAME Schawalder, Vreni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linder, Vreni (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (SP) and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1946